April 27 (Reuters) - Newmont Mining Corp would put its money into projects in other countries if environmental changes to its proposed $4.8 billion Conga gold mine in Peru proved economically unfeasible, the head of the U.S. company said on Friday. "We have other options if it is not favorable," Chief Executive Officer Richard O'Brien told Wall Street analysts on a conference call. He said the Conga plan, approved by Peru's government in October 2010 but...

TORONTO, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Newmont Mining reported on Thursday a four percent drop in adjusted fourth-quarter profit on lower metal production and higher operating costs. Adjusted to remove one-time items, earnings were $552 million, or $1.11 a share, in the quarter ended Dec. 31. That compared with $577 million, or $1.17 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Analysts, on average, had expected earnings of 97 cents a share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. ...

LIMA (Reuters) - Peru may suspend freedom of assembly in the northern region of Cajamarca, Prime Minister Oscar Valdes said on Tuesday, after a rally against Newmont Mining's $5 billion Conga mine turned violent, killing two and injuring 21. President Ollanta Humala's government has implemented emergency measures to curb anti-mining protests on at least two previous occasions in the world's No. 2 copper producer. (Reporting By Lima Newsroom)

ACCRA (Reuters) - Newmont Mining Corp plans to cut up to 600 jobs at its Ghana gold mine by June this year, its local manager said on Monday, citing an ageing facility and slumping gold prices. Global gold prices slumped 28 percent last year. They have recovered around 4 percent so far this year, benefiting from risk-aversion on fears of capital flight from emerging markets following the U.S. Federal Reserve's move to taper its stimulus. U.S.-based Newmont...

LIMA, March 11 (Reuters) - Anti-mining activists have filed a complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights accusing Peru's government of rights abuses during protests against one of Latin America's biggest mining projects, a protest leader said on Monday. The legal move could further stall efforts to revive U.S.-based Newmont Mining Corp's $5 billion Minas Conga project, which President Ollanta Humala's administration put on hold last August...

Feb 24 (Reuters) - Indonesian policies to force miners to process raw materials at home are misfiring, as disputes over the new rules disrupt plans to invest nearly $4 billion in copper smelters to cater for miners such as Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono imposed a controversial mining law on Jan 12, but the rules have left the mining sector in turmoil. As well as a ban on unprocessed ore shipments, a last-minute export tax...

LIMA (Reuters) - Newmont Mining Corp's $5 billion Conga gold project is "on the back burner," Peru's government said on Thursday - a sign that it will stop trying to overcome local opposition that has resulted in violence and two cabinet shuffles. Prime Minister Juan Jimenez made the comments after a poll by survey firm Ipsos showed 78 percent of people in the northern Peruvian region of Cajamarca opposed the planned mine. The high-profile conflict has dominated President...

Feb 20 (Reuters) - Newmont Mining Corp reported a quarterly loss on Thursday on the back of lower gold prices and impairment charges. Fourth-quarter net loss from continuing operations was $1.26 billion, or $2.34 per share, compared with a profit of $669 million, or $1.30 per share, in the same period a year ago. Revenue fell about 12 percent to $2.2 billion. The Denver-based miner said 2014 capital expenditure would be 25 percent lower than last year.

LIMA (Reuters) - One person died and police detained one of the leaders of protests against Newmont's $5 billion gold mine in Peru on Wednesday, the day after clashes between police and protesters left three people dead and 21 injured. The second day of violence erupted in the northern region of Cajamarca as President Ollanta Humala came under criticism for suspending freedom of assembly in the area late on Tuesday. "One death has been confirmed, a civilian,"...

By Nicole Mordant Feb 4 (Reuters) - Newmont Mining Corp expects to be able to continue with normal operations at its Batu Hijua copper-gold mine in Indonesia for the next couple of months while it tries to resolve an export impasse with the government, Chief Executive Gary Goldberg said. In a wide-ranging interview, Goldberg also said Newmont, the biggest U.S.-listed gold producer, had no plans to issue equity to pay down debt. ...

In a move to fend off corporate raider T. Boone Pickens Jr., Newmont Mining Corp. said Monday that it is restructuring and will pay a special cash dividend to shareholders, costing $2.2 billion and greatly boosting the company's debt. Newmont also said it has signed a 10-year agreement with the company's largest shareholder limiting its holdings to less than 50 percent and, as expected, rejected Pickens` latest cash bid of $105 a share. Pickens, who leads Ivanhoe Partners, raised its...

Jan 30 (Reuters) - Newmont Mining Corp said on Thursday it produced 1.5 million ounces of gold and 38 million pounds of copper during the fourth quarter. The world's third-biggest gold company by market value said it expects consolidated gold production of between 5.0 million and 5.3 million ounces of gold and between 160,000 to 175,000 tonnes of copper in 2014. Newmont also said it will apply a gold price of $1,300 per ounce, down from $1,400 a...

Oct 16 (Reuters) - Newmont Mining Corp, the world's No.2 gold miner, said third-quarter gold production fell 6 percent and it said it faced a record $77 million in maintenance and restructuring charges. Newmont cited lower mill availability and recoveries at Boddington in Western Australia, and lower ore tonnes and grade mined at Tanami in northern Australia as reasons for lower productivity. Gold production was 1.24 million ounces, down 5.3 percent ...

Nov 1 (Reuters) - Newmont Mining Corp, the world's second-largest gold producer, reported a 26 percent drop in quarterly profit as production at its giant Indonesian copper and gold mine plummeted and costs rose. Production at the Batu Hijau mine on Sumbawa island plunged to 16,000 pounds in the third quarter from 133,000 pounds a year earlier. Newmont said last month it planned to lay off 100 people from a workforce of 4,000 at the mine to...